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In article <DF1LzK.1rF@wombat.hanse.de>,
Bernd "Bernie" Meyer <root@wombat.hanse.de> wrote:
>
>However, typing "ups program core" after it
>dumped core will allow me to see exactly where it was when dumping core
>(in the source code, that is!), to look at any variable the program had
>and so on. I can the set breakpoints at strategically clever points
>and restart the program. I can also interrupt a program caught in an
>infinite loop and look at all variables.
>
>I am not talking about Mandelbrot programs here. I am talking about
>linked lists the elements of which are pointers to elements of another
>linked list, which are pointers to structures that, among a lot of
>other information, include three more linked lists which hold pointers back
>to other such structures, sometimes in the same, sometimes in other lists.
>They also hold pointers back to the first element of the previously mentioned
>linked list
>
>Then there are a bunch of arrays of pointers pointing directly at various
>points in that list-jungle (for faster access).
>
Now, as a complete aside and totally off topic, you might want to
check out the ddd debugger... it loos great for complex data structures
and stuff like that, it actually draws a graphical representation
of all your data structures, including pointers, linked lists, trees,
everything. _Real_ nice stuff.  Take a look at...

http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/software/ddd_e.html

Let's see _that_ for an Amiga :-)

Now back to your regularly scheduled flamefest...

Jason Garman / garman@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
oh ghod, "Start me up" is on the radio.... almost makes "a grown man cry" :-)